What did you drive?

[dkh51250]

This one was started pre hijack, so here goes again. What vehicles did you manage to clutch around in during your time.

Karrier Bantam, box & flatbed
Standard Vanguard estate
Morris J2
J2 RVT
Land Rover ,all shapes and sizes
Austin K9 1 ton
Minivan
Mini
Bedford RL
Bedford RL RVT
BMC JU 250
Bedford CF (with a 3 speed gearbox)
Bedford Hawson
Hillman Hunter
Austin 1800
Chevette
Ford Escort estate
Morris 1000 estate
Leyland Sherpa
Bedford J type 1 ton (with a funny tin roof)
Dodge van
Eager Beaver forks
Massey Ferguson tractor f/lift
Electric forks
6000 diesel forks
12000 diesel forks (Boss & Henley)


Still to come the stories about some of these. In the meantime, over to you folks.

 

[mick-a-nick]

What about the tractor?

What about the tractor?

This one was started pre hijack, so here goes again. What vehicles did you manage to clutch around in during your time.

Karrier Bantam, box & flatbed
Standard Vanguard estate
Morris J2
J2 RVT
Land Rover ,all shapes and sizes
Austin K9 1 ton
Minivan
Mini
Bedford RL
Bedford RL RVT
BMC JU 250
Bedford CF (with a 3 speed gearbox)
Bedford Hawson
Hillman Hunter
Austin 1800
Chevette
Ford Escort estate
Morris 1000 estate
Leyland Sherpa
Bedford J type 1 ton (with a funny tin roof)
Dodge van
Eager Beaver forks
Massey Ferguson tractor f/lift
Electric forks
6000 diesel forks
12000 diesel forks (Boss & Henley)


Still to come the stories about some of these. In the meantime, over to you folks.

Do you remeber the Douglas Taskmaster - No cab so the line men got wet - Never went NAAFI running in that beast - Then there was the Leyland HIPPO with the Aberdeen overdrive (neutral downhill with swearing and ranting). Nostalgia is not what it used to be. Mick-a-nick

 

[dantura]

Amongst other things in the past, I get to bomb around in one of those things below...when I want.



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[generalmalarkey]

during my nite shifts in the dac me and few others used to creep upto dac73 and have a go on those little pickin trucks endless fun , until i pranged one into a rack and quickly shoved it back into the charging room.it made the station magazine, there was allsorts of things to razz around in that place poes fours, dinkies and those big up and downy things on dac 71. Went back last week and its like a ghost town getting ready for 22sigs. Whilst in mpa i also had the joy of driving the sh*t truck around but that was way back in 89. and now for the list of what else has had the pleasure of me sitting in the driving seat
hawson both bedford & ford
landrover swb & lwb
mini metro car and van
leyland sherpa
eager beaver
4000lbs forks
6000lbs forks
12,000lbs forks
and i've had a clutch in a big red truck with planes on the side

 

[gemarriott]

can us plumbers join in?

If so,

mini
morris 1000
sherpa
ESV
Bedford CF
Bedford 4 tonner
transit
LWB rover
Diesel rover
RTFL
cavalier
eager beaver
6 ton fork lift
Scorpion
tractorliney type
Massey Ferguson tractor
V type

and best of all a jammer or MJ4 proper title Type 'T'

Oh and the Staish's Morris .austin 1800 at coningsby in the mt section.

 

[dkh51250]

Thanks for the memory jogger Mick a Nick. Nearly forgot the Taskmaster, and of course the David Brown with loads of bottle trollies on the back.

 

[Carpet Prong]

Best fun has to be.............

Best fun has to be.............

Driven all the usual crappy stuff but by far the most fun was driving a BV206 up and down the track at Byron Heights.

 

[Norman the Storeman]

I remember with fondess the little electric iso-cars in the DAC too...great days!

I also used to love driving the Supply Sqn mini on signal runs at Abingdon. But my favourite has to be the 2-litre petrol Sherpas you used to get, wheelspins in second gear & everything...awesome!

 

[Hu Jardon]

can us plumbers join in?

If so,

mini
morris 1000
sherpa
ESV
Bedford CF
Bedford 4 tonner
transit
LWB rover
Diesel rover
RTFL
cavalier
eager beaver
6 ton fork lift
Scorpion
tractorliney type
Massey Ferguson tractor
V type

and best of all a jammer or MJ4 proper title Type 'T'

Oh and the Staish's Morris .austin 1800 at coningsby in the mt section.

What he said minus the scorpion but plus David Brown Tractor (with metal seat) Wendy Loader, 1 Tonner, Bantam, Bedford De-Icer, Bedford Oxy Truck, JU, J2 and being a Radar man originally the Gods wagon an RVT. Oh yea also "borrowed" a Removals Van

DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[gemarriott]

What he said minus the scorpion but plus David Brown Tractor (with metal seat) Wendy Loader, 1 Tonner, Bantam, Bedford De-Icer, Bedford Oxy Truck, JU, J2 and being a Radar man originally the Gods wagon an RVT. Oh yea also "borrowed" a Removals Van

DT_Xtremez_28:

Cheers mate memory must be slipping, forgot Wendy, bantam David brown and those fecking awful j twices.

Borrowed the det bus in Deci to take the lads back to the line after the MTD went off on a paddy cos somebody had moved the bus and refused to drive but I didn't think that would countDT_Xtremez_31:

 

[dkh51250]

The joys of starting the Bantam with that fixed starting handle, used because Bantams on fwd supply work used to eat starter rings and the system could never get enough of them. Also, the Coventry Climax Skyzone 6000lb forklift that had to have the pots primed with alcohol to get it going. Used to get an amazing sheet of flame from the exhaust stack when it was started. But the greatest fun of all was the Minivan, like driving an overgrown go kart, brill.

 

[Robby]

A few more to remember

A few more to remember

A few more classics in here,

Mini
mini van
Metro
Chevette- why I ask myself!
Astra
Cortina
Cavalier
Bedford CF Hawson (a great experience in a slam door Hawson stuck in a Kowloon traffic jam - 35C and 98% humidity trying to find Blackdown Barracks the dash mounted fan and white roof made all the difference notDT_Xtremez_30: )
Ford Transit Hawson
Sherpa
RTFL MF40
6000lb Henley Hawk
10,500lb Henley
Leyland Road Runner
Land Rovers (various)

 

[FOMz]

I drove the Runway Caravan into SATCO's car at St Athan many years ago, does that count?